About Us

Mission & Vision

The Center for Population Health IT (CPHIT) is a first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary center at The Johns Hopkins University, the vision of which is to make Johns Hopkins a global leader in population-centric Health IT (HIT) research and development. The Center focuses on improving the health and well-being of populations by advancing state-of-the-art Health IT and related internet and mobile-based e-health tools within public and private health care organizations and systems.

The Center integrates internationally regarded Johns Hopkins faculty from the population, information, engineering, social, and clinical sciences. The Center is based in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, but works closely with the many academic and research units at The Johns Hopkins University including: the School of Medicine’s Division of Health Sciences Informatics, the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety & Quality, the School of Nursing, the Carey School of Business and the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL).